(EFE).- The Cuban authorities assured this Thursday that the cancellation of three concerts in Spain by the musical duo Buena Fe, close to government and partisan circles, was due to “harassment” and the media “campaigns” against them.
The president of the Cuban Music Institute, Indira Fajardo, described the situation as “harassment” at a press conference.
“The evidence that these attacks had been previously prepared is evident, since the videos on social networks incited to attack the Cuban group,” Fajardo said, according to the Cuban News Agency (ACN).
Meanwhile, the National Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (Uneac) expressed in a statement its “outrage” at the “barbarism that is revealed in the harassment and persecution” against Cuban musicians.
“This is an attack against civility, a manifest contempt for culture and for those of us who defend the right to do our work from this blocked and slandered Island,” the text states.
Uneac pointed out that the authors of this campaign are “anti-Cuban elements” that “have followed the fascist script dictated by the entrenched Plata sect in South Florida.”
Uneac expressed in a statement its “outrage” at the “barbarism that is revealed in the harassment and persecution” against Cuban musicians
The Cuban Minister of Culture, Alpidio Alonso, considered on Twitter that “the harassment of the Buena Fe duo and the pressure on the owners of the venues that scheduled their concerts in Spain are cowardly acts, of a McCarthy and fascist nature.”
In that same social network, the president of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel, also spoke of “harassment” and assured that “all of Cuba” is with the duo.
Buena Fe’s tour of Spain began last Friday in Madrid and included presentations in the cities of Bilbao, Barcelona, Zamora, Salamanca and Cáceres.
But at the first concert an incident occurred: two anti-Cuban government activists claimed to have been beaten -presumably by personnel from the Havana embassy in Madrid- after shouting slogans against the system on the island during the performance.
The following day the cancellation was announced in Barcelona, which the group linked to “organizational and logistical reasons”, which was followed by the suspension of their performances in Salamanca and Zamora.
“Under the pretext of defending democracy, fascist harassment and threats have been unleashed against the owners of the premises and that has been more powerful than the songs,” said the members of the musical duo.
Created in 1999, Buena Fe is common in official acts and celebrations of the Union of Young Communists (UJC). Several times he has traveled within the official Cuban delegations to events such as the World Festival of Youth and Students.
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